Ride the 26-mile round trip Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad through the "valley that changed the world".
- Visit the museums in the area:
- Drake Well Museum: The main museum building contains over 70 exhibits on the origin of Oil!
- Tyred Wheels Museum: 25 antique cars & airplanes and other antique items and miniatures.
- Pithole Museum: A museum telling the incredulous tale of the miraculous quick rise and fall of Pithole, an oil boom town that went from a very small population to over 10,000 in just 2 years.
- Debence Museum: With its incredible collection of mechanical musical instruments dating from the mid 1800s to the 1940s.
- Franklin Antique Mall & Auction Gallery:
There is a large assortment of fun and interesting activities in the Oil Creek area in addition to the historical setting, outdoor type activities are plentiful!
Hiking, Canoeing and biking are popular past-times out here!!
Bike the 10-mile bicycle trail along Oil Creek Valley past the sites of the early boom towns or try the 8-mile bicycle trail along the Allegheny River.
Hike through the beatiful scenery of Oil Creek State Park
try some horse back riding
at Knapping Knapp Farms
while you are here.